Builders construct experimental vaults of brick and cement blocks in Santiago de Cuba in December 1960. Centro de Documentación, Empresa RESTAURA, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La ...

Cuba’s architecture has assimilated various outside influences over the last 600 years, mixing Moorish, Baroque, Art Deco and more to create strikingly unique cityscapes.

The Grand, Eerie, Forgotten Architecture of Cuba’s National Art Schools By 99% Invisible The ballet school at Cuba’s National Art Schools, known today as the Instituto Superior de Arte.

The story of the rise and fall of thin-tile vaulting in Cuba after the revolution has always focused on the National Art Schools in Havana, which are typically presented by the scholarly literature as ...

In Cuba, tile vaults were famously used to build the National Art Schools, ... The structure was designed in 1961 by Josefina Rebellón, who at the time was a third-year architecture student.

This May, visitors were allowed into Havana's long-defunct Tallapiedra electric plant for the first time since it was shuttered in the 1960s. They could climb the grated stairs to the plant's nave, ...

For decades, Cuba's communist economic system has essentially outlawed all forms of private architectural work. In 2011 though, wide-ranging economic reforms brought a challenge to this status quo ...

Builders construct experimental vaults of brick and cement blocks in Santiago de Cuba in December 1960. Centro de Documentación, Empresa RESTAURA, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La ...

In Cuba, tile vaults were famously used to build the National Art Schools, ... The structure was designed in 1961 by Josefina Rebellón, who at the time was a third-year architecture student.

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